Cornerstone Learning Reviews
All-in-one system of learning that brings together learning, growth, skills, and capabilities into a personalized, curated experience.
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Trusted by thousands of organizations across all sizes and industries, Cornerstone supports your employees from hire to retire. More than half of our clients are small and medium businesses who rely on Cornerstone for all their talent management needs, starting with learning.
Cornerstone Learning Reviews & Ratings 2023
Read Cornerstone Learning reviews and discover how other eLearning Industry community members have experienced the software.
Performance Overview
Overall Rating
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Jun 8, 2023
Excellent LMS if you want to utilize training for your external clients and internal talent.
What do you like best?
With this tool, you can easily leverage its integrations. For example, you can use PowerPoint or links to other courses, even if they are on other platforms. It's a very easy-to-use LMS; you can easily configure everything and assign courses without much trouble. I like that I can assign courses based on job roles, e.g., position titles. In case you need to track and manage your internal training requirements, it's beneficial. You'll have no problem checking on your staff and their development.
What do you dislike?
I would have preferred the administration process to have taken less time. For instance, I had to break an existing presentation into smaller parts to upload our training components. They could make some improvements to help avoid such time-consuming tasks and allow users to upload the full presentation and then break it into pieces within the LMS.
Jun 1, 2023
If you're looking for consistency, it's a great product overall.
What do you like best?
Great LMS with a UI that's flexible and cares for the end user. I like the admin experience. Looks clean and better than other LMSs. What I like most is The Learner Home. The Welcome and Custom Pages are also good. It's really useful to have a dedicated place where end users can find the content they want to take as training. As an Admin, I was really pleased with the variety of features it offers. Plenty of data you can leverage in the system, plus you can easily automate experiences.
What do you dislike?
All is good with the platform, but I can't say I'm very happy with their support team. Sometimes they are not very helpful. Also, their roadmap is a bit confusing. They don't publicize changes enough.
May 30, 2023
Finally, we found an easy way to deploy training to our field employees!
What do you like best?
Cornerstone has proven to be a great LMS for all of our learning and development initiatives. We also use it to improve employee performance. The mobility of the platform was crucial for us because we have many employees out in the field. The fact that it works well on tablets and mobile phones has made it easy to take training anytime, anywhere, making it easy to keep up top to date; even when it comes to compliance training and employee engagement.
What do you dislike?
Nothing to complain about. It's great if you want to have all your training and development, and performance processes on one platform. Not having to switch between platforms to compare data was important to us. Reporting is so easy with Cornerstone because we have everything in one place. Analyzing data has never been easier.
Apr 2, 2023
Thank God for Cornerstone! It has made my team's training lives so much easier. A true lifesaver!
What do you like best?
What I love most is that I can upload my own training material. Then, assigning it out to all employees (2000) is just a piece of cake. Before getting this LMS, I had to spend hours rolling out the training to whoever needed to take it. Being a law enforcement agency, we needed a tool that would allow us to keep an accurate record of training. For example, training for law suits. After implementing Cornerstone, the team is killing it!
What do you dislike?
At first, the set up process what a bit difficult to figure out, but we managed to make it with some help. For example, I had a hard time finding my way around creating certification or attestation forms. But all is good now. Once you figure out how to use it, everything will go smoothly. And you know what? We've got multiple training managers in our agency. All of them seem to have gotten the hang of it.
Apr 1, 2023
A versatile LMS you can easily learn to use and train your teams. I love I can do so much with it!
What do you like best?
Cornerstone LMS has proven to be extremely versatile. I'm very happy that it can handle everything you throw at it. It's great that it allows us to have Stage and Pilot portals. It makes it so much easier to practice with the system and learn as much as we can before publishing the content. Our set up is sort of co-op. So that means we have many different business units into the same LMS. So far, everything works beautifully.
What do you dislike?
The only thing I've struggled with was building our performance tasks. It would be great to create a review process all in-line rather than working on everything separately. Other than that, I've very happy with the tool.
Mar 6, 2023
Finally, we're ready for the future of work! Such a great learning management system!
What do you like best?
What I like most about Cornerstone is that they keep adding new features. They make sure that the tool adapts to the future of work. I really enjoy being able to help my team learn new skills and improve by leveraging AI driven recommendations. I'm glad we can now identify skills gaps in various groups within our organization, even in different departments. Best of all, upper management can dive into this info and give us buy-in for our learning strategy.
What do you dislike?
The team at Cornerstone has worked with us closely, so no complaints here. With their help, we were able to find creative solutions for our training needs. Sure, we still need to get the hang of some things as the platform evolves, but I'm really pleased with the outcome. I'd like to see what they do in the future regarding skills and AI capabilities. Thankfully they are open to our feedback, so more capabilities are rolling out with the latest updates.
Feb 23, 2023
We've been steady and happy with Cornerstone across the years.
What do you like best?
My experience with Cornerstone is very positive, as I've been creating training with it for more than a decade. Since 2000 I've had to change tools several times, including Saba and Sum Total. When I found Cornerstone, I went exclusive. That surely means something! For me, Cornerstone is great in terms of functionality. It has rich features and a clear roadmap. I'm very pleased with the way they handle their product development. And I love that we had some part in it.
What do you dislike?
I've very pleased with Cornerstone, and I will keep using it for a long time. Even though I like how configurable the platform is, that might be a bit hard when you're trying to implement it for the first time. It does need some rapid innovation. Especially in emerging areas like skills and learning in the flow of work. Also, managing events and sessions can use a bit of improvement.
Nov 21, 2022
A true leader in LMS Software. Excellent experience overall.
What do you like best?
Over the years, I've worked with different LMS products, and Cornerstone OnDemand really stands out. It's a customizable solution that can cover the most demanding business needs. For us, it took some time, but we finally found the best fit for our learning culture. I appreciate their support team, always there to help us out. The same goes for the client success team and, of course, the product team. They always go above and beyond and listen to our feedback.
What do you dislike?
From what I've seen through the years, Cornerstone is constantly growing. Their product team has managed to adapt the platform to what's needed during quarterly releases. And plenty of times, they've taken our feedback and suggestions into consideration when creating future enhancements.
Jul 25, 2022
Cornerstone Learning is the best LMS I've ever used, hands down!
What do you like best?
It is a one stop shop for all things Training and Development. From online learning to development plans, it is all in one system, which makes it more appealing to the end user.
What do you dislike?
I don't always have time to utilize all of the resources available, so tech support can be a challenge. If you have an issue, there are articles, expert communities, courses, etc. It is wonderful, but I just don't always have the time.
Jun 25, 2022
Cornerstone is a powerful system with consistent innovation to many of its features.
What do you like best?
Strength of reporting and administration functionality allows for seamless real-time communication of learning status and marketing of new programs.
What do you dislike?
Implementation of Test engine feature is a bit clunky and outdated and refresh of the feature is taking longer than expected.
Jun 10, 2022
Robust, complex system that is overkill except for large multinationals.
What do you like best?
For those who need compliance training safeguards and intricate reporting functions, it may be just the ticket. One handy thing is the built-in assessment possibility, which is unusual for a standalone LMS. Also nice is the ability to easily send completely tailored "marketing" email messages to users at will.
What do you dislike?
Now that we are switching to Adobe Learning Manager (Captivate Prime), I realize even more how cumbersome Cornerstone is. Compared with a user-friendly system, Cornerstone has hard-to-find places where something must be toggled on or off so a task works the way you need, inability to ever delete content that perhaps was erroneously uploaded, and lack of communications tools for users within the system (for example, no way to have someone click "Contact us " and be connected with the Admins).
Jun 8, 2022
A simplified system that allows you to collect employee data based on the training they are taking.
What do you like best?
I like that it is relevantly easy to use. Most people in our company had no problems starting their training. Even the ones I wouldn't call tech-savvy. The team at Cornerstone constantly tries to improve the tool, which is something I look forward to every time. With each release, the LMS is becoming better and better. And they do listen to our feedback. We've been using it for almost five years, during which they've come a long way. Kudos to their devs and support!
What do you dislike?
Although it is easy to use, the implementation gave us some hard time. I was the product leader, and I didn't have the best experience setting it up. Many of the processes might leave you confused. I suggest you give it some time and not try to implement it way too fast. There's a learning curve on the admin side.
May 8, 2022
A terrible LMS choice for any organization of any size
What do you like best?
Nothing. I find that Cornerstone has zero redeeming features when compared to other platforms in its price range which do literally everything Cornerstone does and so much more with a fraction of the effort.
What do you dislike?
Cornerstone is an old dinosaur fossil of an LMS being sold dishonesty. I was promised deliverables that didn't exist. The platform is granular to the point of pain of use. It is old and it looks and feels its age. Simple actions require 20-40+ clicks over multiple screens and tabs. Actions are inconsistent. Staff were neither knowledgeable nor friendly.
Apr 2, 2022
Amazing tool! I highly recommend Cornerstone On Demand for your training needs.
What do you like best?
We are a retail company with 80% un-desked workers, and things can be tricky when it comes to training. Thankfully, our employees enjoy being able to learn in the flow of work with tools like the Express Class. I really love their easy-to-use AI-supported carousels. You can find them on Learner Home. Taken that we can support up to 100k+ employees with an admin team of 4, you won't have any problems working with plenty of learners.
What do you dislike?
Really hard to pick something out, as I haven't noticed anything I liked the least. Keep in mind that we don't make use of all the available features, but 100% pleased with the ones we are using in our daily operations.
Mar 13, 2022
Better than any other Learning Platform out there!
What do you like best?
Easy to use with new features constantly added along the way. Its biggest con is that it is completely customizable unlike other ''big players'' who claim the same but do not deliver at the end of the day.
What do you dislike?
The back end can be quite confusing at first and takes time to get used to it. Their product, support, and client success team will guide you along the way.
Nov 6, 2021
Excellent customization, no issues with worldwide deployment within our organization.
What do you like best?
Cornerstone has done an excellent job with its LMS solution offering. I really enjoy the customization level of the platform, something that was very important because we have branches with different license types. E.g., for Digital activity and for Regulatory basis only. The entire documentation is excellent, including OnlineHelp and its release notes. They've got a great and engaging community. Their forum is also very well structured!
What do you dislike?
For me, it's easy to find any info or use case I need. I really like the Product academy. It's great if you wanna get recognized CSOD certifications. Not really much I'd like to change. Sure, there can be minor improvements, we've already suggested some, but they haven't been prioritized yet.
Oct 12, 2021
5 Star Full Suite! If you want as much in one system as possible, Cornerstone is legit.
What do you like best?
I love this tool! We've got everything in one place, from learning and performance to ATS and Succession. I'm really amazed at how the system allows me to create a smooth end-user experience. Great customization and robust curriculum. It's really versatile and allows us to think outside the box for different use cases. We've been using it for skills and onboarding Certification tracking for quite some time now. Our end users find it very easy to use. It also has fantastic reporting.
What do you dislike?
I like their customer service, but it needs some improvement in timely responses. The ATS also can make some improvements, especially when it comes to handling rehires. We also faced some minor issues with External Registrants that were seen as internal. Other than that, my experience is positive.
Aug 7, 2021
I strongly recommend CSOD if you want to provide an abundance of training to your organization
What do you like best?
There are hundreds of on-demand videos and online courses you can leverage. Plenty of online help articles are available, as well as virtual instructor-led training classes. So, new admins won't have any issue upskilling their familiarity with the abundance of features that Cornerstone offers. It's great that we can tailor the learning experience for different end users.
What do you dislike?
I really love their release-ready webinars and that their release planning is thought out. It's great to be able to vote on what improvements should be made or on what new features might be a good fit in the future. Can't wait to see what's coming up next!
Jun 5, 2021
Overall, it's an excellent tool for learning management. No more declining user engagement.
What do you like best?
A really sleek and intuitive design that makes learning enjoyable. The content is consumed, and we've seen increases in training completion. Their Playlists have been a big hit within our team. It's also great that we can customize the Learner Home Banners. The same goes for the Welcome Page. I like that it offers SSO Access. Your end users are gonna love it. It's very easy to access and use. Great for increasing user engagement.
What do you dislike?
Don't get me wrong, I love Cornerstone, but we had some issues when integrating it with our business. Setting up the system with some vendors was also a bit challenging. However, the transition to the system was pretty smooth. Also, versioning content and relevant assignments weren't easy for me.
May 18, 2021
A fully capable and easily customizable HCM platform.
What do you like best?
What I like most about the tool is that once configured the underlying tools work so well and so logically, that I can focus on creating the ideal user experience for my users. Thus increasing adoption and usage, making the tool more valuable. within the organization. Increasing the amount of user data to be reported on, etc.
What do you dislike?
Some functions were developed and at different times in different ways, so there are minor inconsistencies for the Admin in how to do similar tasks in different areas of the tool. That said they release updates 4 times a year always working to get it all in sync.
Apr 24, 2021
It's a comprehensive learning product that has helped us achieve our learning goals
What do you like best?
We like the fact that we can build curriculum to push out from our various in-house departments to meet our employee's clinical and non clinical needs alike.
What do you dislike?
I don't have much to say about it in a negative way, we are in the first six months of using the product and have so far had a good experience.
Apr 21, 2021
Flexible, Customizable, and Intuitive - CSOD Learning is the Cadillac of Systems
What do you like best?
I love CSOD's ability to be so flexible! For example, our Workday hierarchal data can be difficult as you move up and down the supervisory reports to chain. However, with CSOD I can easily solve for this with independent hierarchal overlays or connections, because the software can do the HCM piece you benefit even if you don't purchase/use that area. Likewise some function from Performance - Skills and Competencies, we are better able to tag and filter learning in a catalog that makes sense.
What do you dislike?
Reporting - Auditability native and inhouse. As the Named Admin and main Product Manager - I need and would love to be able to run advanced audit and security related reporting. This is currently not possible. The only other area, which is IMPROVING, are tests and quizzes - there is full function now, but the UI is dated, and the administration as well. New functions to include mobile responsive testing (for use with the APP) will be a game changer for us.
Apr 4, 2021
If you respect your company's learning culture, I highly suggest using Cornerstone.
What do you like best?
We've been working with Cornerstone for almost 5 years now. Our whole team is very pleased with the platform and their support. The main contacts we've been working with over the years are always there for us. They truly do everything in their power to help. We've managed to achieve plenty of institutional goals over the years. I love how versatile Cornerstone is. For me, the Cornerstone Success Center and the Knowledge Base are the best things this tool offers.
What do you dislike?
The system is very easy to learn, and I love how they've built a community of customers. It's actually pretty engaging and helpful! Never expected this! The groups and the test engine seem a bit old, but I'm sure they're gonna revamp it in the future. I like that they are doing updates constantly and that they do listen to client feedback, so I'm hopeful. Regarding reporting, the LAT, the content uploader, and Edge they've done an excellent job updating the system.
Mar 22, 2021
Cornerstone contains all the components to help us provide the best learning experience for our Team
What do you like best?
I love how all the pieces work together. We are able to integrate our Performance and Succession into our Learning Paths.
What do you dislike?
I haven't really stumbled upon anything that I dislike. I am still learning about Reporting 2.0 but I am excited to use it to its full potential.
Feb 23, 2021
A highly customizable LMS solution. However, you'll need training from an admin perspective.
What do you like best?
As an admin, I had to spend some time optimizing the system's functionality, yet, from a UX perspective, it's great. They have a large base of resources, so you won't have any issues learning to use the system and making it fit your needs. As far as our employees are concerned, it's very user-friendly. I just want to note that security might be a bit complicated, but the system offers different choices. So, depending on your company's needs, you can set up user access the way you like.
What do you dislike?
I do like that they have continuous updates to the system. It's great that they are rolling out improvements and enhancements. However, some older features could use a facelift because it looks a bit outdated... Also, it would be great if questions were answered sooner. I suggest they just keep the features that clients like instead of removing them and adding new features that are not really that useful.
Feb 2, 2021
All the features you need for push and pull learning and continues to evolve
What do you like best?
I appreciate the focus and features that they continue to roll out and/or refine. The roadmap is clear and release resources are clear and available. From a UI perspective it allows for customization which helps make it easier for end users to access content.
What do you dislike?
Support cases often require a lot of back and forth and long wait times. Even when something is listed as a possible defect it can be months. Service requests are generally fast however.
Dec 9, 2020
Delivers content in a variety of ways, makes it easy!
What do you like best?
I think the variety of content available and the ability to not only seek out but have recommendations made is helpful.
What do you dislike?
The process to acknowledge or sign is easy to miss with learning objects. As an admin, I am often having to work hard to track down people with pending acknowledgments.
Dec 5, 2020
Incredible User Experience with Learner Home carousels
What do you like best?
The thing I like the most about Cornerstone is the broad capacity for customization. It's possible for each instance of Cornerstone to develop their own unique navigation, page, design, and functionality preferences depending on business need. Cornerstone provides an abundance of training for administrators to grow their skills with configuring the product to their specificity.
What do you dislike?
I have worked with more than one LMS and Cornerstone is my favorite, but I do have a wish list. The top of my wish list is matrix management to provide more flexibility for indirect managers or training support leaders to manage employee training without assuming a direct report or approver role.
Cornerstone Learning — Dec 17, 2020
Dec 4, 2020
Learning provides many training options our company needs in to fully train our various employees.
What do you like best?
Cornerstone Learning provides so many options for training. We are a large organization (70k+) and so we have a large training catalog. We have needs for onboarding, large volumes of compliance-based training, and also skill-building. Learning allows us to customize learning experiences for our users that best suit the training need. We love the flexibility of LATs vs. self-assigning, and also using availability to manage who "sees" what in the catalog. And reporting... It's a life-saver!
What do you dislike?
I'd love to see more options for OU Group criteria. There are times where the criteria needed just isn't available and we need to use a static group instead. It's not very often, though, so we make it work.
Cornerstone Learning — Dec 17, 2020
Nov 20, 2020
Great, easy to use Learning Experience Platform, helps to move from push to pull training
What do you like best?
Cornerstone Learning is easy to use from both end user and administrator perspective. Over last few years they have heavily invested in site and functionality redesign making it one of the best Learning solutions. Playlists are a great addition, Learner home gives ability to promote specific courses to unique audience groups, look and feel of the site is modern and easy to customize. Cornerstone is helping to move away traditional L&D initiatives to virtual and online learning.
What do you dislike?
Creating custom dashboards from Reporting 2.0 while it is a great functionality, it’s cumbersome, requires sharing initial report with end user, sharing a dashboard and giving security permissions and in the end user doesn’t see custom brand colour scheme, they only see standard colours that often do not alight with brand guidelines.
Cornerstone Learning — Dec 17, 2020
Nov 13, 2020
Very beneficial and great tool and resource to have
What do you like best?
I love how easy accessible the reporting aspect of it is, it provides me with everything I need on a daily basis.
What do you dislike?
It took a while to get used to the system and it can be quite complex at times.
Cornerstone Learning — Dec 17, 2020
Nov 12, 2020
Complexity is also a bless for us because it gives a possibility to make more targeted trainings
What do you like best?
How easy it is to create and publish trainings for the exact external user groups, and keep them separated out of our internal training's.
What do you dislike?
Cornerstone/Workday integration. It seems that in our case we cannot take certain field information out of the transcript which causes irrelevant information in Workday user account.
Cornerstone Learning — Dec 17, 2020
Nov 11, 2020
It can be an excellent training tool to use, if you have the right vision on how you want to use it
What do you like best?
From the admin role, being able to connect and see how lower level employee's develop has been fun. Being able to gain alignment across multiple sites is much easier with a centralized platform
What do you dislike?
It's a lot. There isn't anything super easy to use in the system early on, and can be challenging. I was not a software person going into the project, and these cloud based systems are complex. Once you gather a better understanding of how it all works, it is simple, but it takes time
Cornerstone Learning — Nov 13, 2020
Nov 4, 2020
complete with many functions and projection to new functionalities
What do you like best?
the administration capacity with lots of options. The public roadmap of the company and their continuous changes.
What do you dislike?
little flexibility and some very necessary options not available. Maybe the client must be listened more times
Cornerstone Learning — Nov 13, 2020
Oct 29, 2020
An excellent software with an incredible team customer oriented
What do you like best?
The team at Cornerstone is the real strength and the stability of the platform. The software is updated regularly with new features and uses modern technologies on the backend which allow the platform to be very customizable.
What do you dislike?
As the platform is constantly being updated with new features, it happens that "legacy" functions do not have the same look and feel. Still, it's really a minor issue.
Oct 28, 2020
CSOD Learning has helped our company organize training opportunities and report on usage.
What do you like best?
The ability to keep all of our training opportunities in one place, automated emails and reporting on usage and compliance.
What do you dislike?
The lack of ability to add multiple subjects quickly, the evaluation functionality, and lack of a search function for admins with the instance - it would be very helpful as the system is complex and it can be hard to remember where an admin tool is in the system.
Oct 27, 2020
LMS is definitely the Cornerstone of their products. Pun intended!
What do you like best?
They have a ton of features and functionalities and are always updating their system each quarter (more than most companies do). They definitely care about their LMS and making it the best system out there. Between suggestion city and feedback from users they constantly try to make the system as user friendly as possible
What do you dislike?
There are so many functionalities that sometimes you can get lost or maybe not know they exists because they been rolled out or maybe you don't know if they will fit your current or future needs but honestly it's a good problem to have!
Cornerstone Learning — Dec 17, 2020
Oct 27, 2020
For someone with no prior experience working in an LMS platform, I found it intuitive to learn.
What do you like best?
I like the customization that the platform allows. It has allowed our team and company to get creative with how we deliver content to end-users.
What do you dislike?
After using the platform for the past year, I still feel like I lack some basic knowledge and understanding of how the system reacts when certain actions are taken in the Learning suite for more complex applications.
Oct 21, 2020
Cornerstone was the right choice for my organization. It is an awesome system and company!
What do you like best?
Cornerstone has the capability we needed. I really like the integration with our HR system (Workday) and the single sign on which has reduced customer access issues considerably. My team also loves "office hours" which is an amazing service to Users along with a robust User Group community!
What do you dislike?
It is not too complicated to learn but one must invest time in using the system and practice in pilot. The think I like least is Versioning.
Oct 21, 2020
Cornerstone Learning is a must have in a virtual world
What do you like best?
I liked how much thought and knowledge was put into the design and development of the platform.
What do you dislike?
I would say the the reporting functionality could be improved a bit and does take a lot more time learning how to use it.
Oct 21, 2020
Cornerstone Learning is a fantastic platform! It has great reporting capabilities and customizations
What do you like best?
The best part of Cornerstone are the amount of customizations and detail you can add to every part of the system from security to course creation.
What do you dislike?
Because there is so much detail involved in each part of the system, it can be a challenge for many of our administrators to learn.
Sep 30, 2020
Cornerstone might be complex but gives you all the tools needed to adapt it to your organization.
What do you like best?
Training employees has always been challenging, but that has changed with Cornerstone. I love how this LMS is designed. It's very user-friendly, making it clear that it's people-centered. And if we need something extra, they listen to our feedback. It's great to finally have a tool that allows me to assign trainings to many users at once.
What do you dislike?
Having quarterly upgrades to the platform makes it even more efficient. Keep doing what you're doing! The only thing I find somewhat confusing is the mix of old and new features. Either way, you can manage everything easily. You might have a hard time as a new admin, but they have plenty of guides and an engaged community to help you through.
Sep 1, 2020
Great tool to reach the entire organization that is spread out across multiple states.
What do you like best?
The ability to customize learning for different segments of the organization. Having a targeted curriculum enables new hires to get trained faster and keeps us in compliance as well. The ability to provide reports to state surveyors on demand is critical.
What do you dislike?
Some of the industry specific content we need to use does not work on mobile due to technology limits. No fault of Cornerstone though.
Cornerstone Learning — Oct 6, 2020
Aug 26, 2020
Cornerstone Learning is wonderfully intuitive for our users.
What do you like best?
There is so much great functionality with the Learner Home page. It has allowed us to visually feature courses and curated playlists to allow us to meet employees where they are.
What do you dislike?
I wish it were less expensive as we would love to purchase their Performance Management modules.
Cornerstone Learning — Oct 6, 2020
Aug 25, 2020
CSOD has the best reporting capability for a LMS in the industry.
What do you like best?
Constant product release and overall improvement. Great communication and community support.
What do you dislike?
There are still some inconsistencies between features. Occasional glitches that can cause frustration for users.
Aug 24, 2020
Cornerstone Learning has helped us level up in terms of quality staff training.
What do you like best?
It is very user friendly and I can easily problem solve most issues with no prior tech experience.
What do you dislike?
The maximum allowed size for videos has been troublesome a few times. We have utilized YouTube to work around this issue.
Cornerstone Learning — Oct 13, 2020
Aug 24, 2020
A great tool to host and deliver a wide range of learning strategies.
What do you like best?
The ability to integrate learning, development and performance management. Customize to our immediate needs but expand with future growth.
What do you dislike?
A complex system that has more horsepower than we currently need. I want the mobile application to be more robust and able to accomplish more tasks aside form learning.
Cornerstone Learning — Oct 6, 2020
Aug 24, 2020
I believe it is a great platform when functioning properly.
What do you like best?
I appreciate the updates that are made quarterly. I also enjoy using the performance module to support our business.
What do you dislike?
I do not like the lack of support and customer service that is often provided. It is sometimes a hassle to get direct answers to specific questions and we are often pointed around in different directions over and over.
Cornerstone Learning — Oct 13, 2020
Aug 24, 2020
It has all the functions of an ideal LMS. Implementing and fully leveraging those functions is hard.
What do you like best?
The quantity of options that make this a solid centralized learning resource, from the end-user to administrators, and the plethora of data available.
What do you dislike?
From the administrator side, there are a lot of technical requirements and settings for each functionality, so significant administrative attention and resources are required to implement successfully. This feeds to the end-user, if not enough resources are available, a 'clunky' experience occurs where several steps are required to complete tasks.
Cornerstone Learning — Sep 28, 2020
Aug 24, 2020
Cornerstone Learning is a good module alone, but even better when used the other modules.
What do you like best?
The ability to customize the portal and features allows for a robust experience for the end user.
What do you dislike?
There are lot of permissions and granular features that are difficult to master. The administrator role is vital to its success.
Cornerstone Learning — Sep 28, 2020
Aug 24, 2020
We use the system extensively for both internal employees and outside clients.
What do you like best?
The Extended Enterprise capabilities. Ability to customize the solution for our needs. New support structure where we are assigned a CRM, onsite meetings regularly. Assigned support staff for call in. Ability to escalate cases ourselves.
What do you dislike?
Lack of technical assistance with integrations. Use of only third parties for projects rather than standard support.
Aug 24, 2020
It is a great program for Learning and Performance
What do you like best?
The Performance Review section is very easy for the end user. It has a great way to digitally store your Review and Check-Ins for referencing back to. The Learning section is very easy for the end user. It has plenty of courses available without having to purchase additional ones.
What do you dislike?
The back end set up for Admin users is not very user friendly. It is hard to get to talk to someone unless you wait for office hours then it is sometimes a hit or miss because they may be several people on the line to ask questions but I just excuse myself and join the next one.
Cornerstone Learning — Sep 28, 2020
Aug 22, 2020
The Learning platform is great, but the rest of the modules need improvement.
What do you like best?
The reporting capabilities on the Learning side are very good, in addition to the Learning Assignment tool and all the capabilities around assigning and ILT/content publishing.
What do you dislike?
I don't like the fact that on some screens, like creating a user, you cannot press "enter" in order to search for something; you have to move the mouse to click on "Search" which is quite annoying sometimes.
Cornerstone Learning — Oct 13, 2020
Aug 21, 2020
Cornerstone is a very robust and powerful LMS!!!!!
What do you like best?
Great end-user experience! Beautiful interface that is easy to navigate. The backend system is a bit more complex. New LMS admins may experience some challenges. However, experienced LMS admins will find consistency across industry systems with a few added bells and whistles. The Client Success Centre is top-notch. There are numerous resources such as training modules, FAQs, open forum discussions, and more.
What do you dislike?
As this system is very robust is does make it challenging to navigate all the features. For smaller organizations with limited resources implementing Cornerstone Learning, I would recommend giving yourself and your organization more than the 10 weeks the implementation team recommends.
Cornerstone Learning — Sep 29, 2020
Aug 21, 2020
This is a powerful LMS with a a bit of a learning curve.
What do you like best?
It makes it easy to provide training in many different formats to a large audience. Easily being able to share a video, an e-learning course, or even create a curriculum of On the Job Training tasks is the best feature.
What do you dislike?
It appears to be designed by a bunch of different committees that didn't always talk to one another when they built a specific function.
Cornerstone Learning — Oct 13, 2020
Aug 21, 2020
Cornerstone is a powerful tool that can help you accomplish most of your L&D tasks.
What do you like best?
I like how established it is and therefore it's easy to find resources and help on the areas I need. It's relatively intuitive from the admin side as well.
What do you dislike?
I wish it was easier to change things in the system. For example, I want to report to the percent change in learners that complete a course evaluation from last year to this year. That is impossible to do in the system without going line by line on an evaluation report, and I cannot change the reporting structure to allow for that. I have to instead submit a "suggestion" and hope the team deems it worthy enough to implement. Also, having to buy multiple add ons to accomplish normal L&D tasks.
Cornerstone Learning — Oct 13, 2020
Aug 21, 2020
A robust, effective learning management system that is easy to use!
What do you like best?
I like the flexibility and usability of the system - wide range of functionality and great training.
What do you dislike?
While there are tons of options for specific support, it's almost too many choices of how to get help and I'm not always sure which route to take. It would be nice if I had one account manager to turn to directly for support.
Cornerstone Learning — Oct 7, 2020
Aug 21, 2020
User friendly and has all of the functionality we needed.
What do you like best?
There is always at least one way to make the software do what you want it to. It's rare that I tell management that the system is unable to complete some type of functionality. Definitely the best system I've worked with so far.
What do you dislike?
The support model has changed a bit. Engaging with customer support has become a bit more time consuming, but is still the best way to get help with questions about the system.
Aug 21, 2020
Cornerstone is an excellent LMS with room to grow.
What do you like best?
Quaterly updates / improvements is a big plus. The fact that CSOD keeps improving their product has always been a big plus for us. We take advantage of these changes to make our lives easier and provide better experience for our users.
What do you dislike?
As as admin, it takes some time to get use to the modules. When you are supporting more than one module, it can be very time consuming when you are part of an organization that has over 10k employees.
Cornerstone Learning — Oct 6, 2020
Aug 21, 2020
Cornerstone LMS has an intuitive end user interface; the admin side has a bit of a learning curve.
What do you like best?
I am most impressed with the reporting capabilities of the system. Reports are incredibly easy to run once you know the names of the fields you need.
What do you dislike?
The versioning process for Learning Objects is very complicated and can lead to workflow complications if you're not careful. Also, the test building tool could offer more interactivity.
Cornerstone Learning — Oct 13, 2020
Aug 21, 2020
Very powerful tool to roll out education to our staff.
What do you like best?
I love how fast it is to upload content. I upload content quite frequently and find it is fast, efficient and easy to do!
What do you dislike?
There really isn’t much I don’t like. I would say that reporting could be cumbersome when using a custom report, but since the release of reporting 2.0, we have found it to be much simpler.
Cornerstone Learning — Oct 6, 2020
Aug 20, 2020
Amazing learning system, amazing support make this our go to learning tool
What do you like best?
Out of all of the leaning management systems that I have used or evaluated, Cornerstone is the most comprehensive and easiest to use. Also, the technical support has been amazing and lightning fast in their responses.
What do you dislike?
The are functional and helpful interfaces that exists in the two mobile apps (CS Mobile, CS Learn). The admin functions, specifically observation checklists, would be very helpful in the mobile or desktop site. The current interface is complicated and unusable for our purposes.
Cornerstone Learning — Oct 6, 2020
Aug 20, 2020
Top notch LMS for expanding our learning environment
What do you like best?
Cornerstone OnDemand is incredibly intuitive. It can be a little cumbersome on the admin side, but more than makes up for it with a very accessible user interface. The always evolving mobile accessibility is definitely an asset with our transient workforce.
What do you dislike?
Like I said, the admin side of Cornerstone is a bit cumbersome, especially for our less technically inclined facilitators.
Cornerstone Learning — Oct 6, 2020
Aug 20, 2020
User friendly learning management system with great features.
What do you like best?
It's a straight forward and simple experience as a user. As a user, you should be able to login and find what you need pretty quickly. The system is not difficult to understand and requires little training to get up and running as a user.
What do you dislike?
Administrative functionality can be challenging and integrations are somewhat limited. It's best to have an experienced admin managing the system to minimize any errors.
Cornerstone Learning — Oct 6, 2020
Aug 19, 2020
What I consider to be the gold standard of the Enterprise LMS
What do you like best?
Cornerstone is intuitive to learn, use, administrate, and train on. Our staff were able to quickly pick up on any changes to the system, and our training team has had a relatively easy time administering our LMS in the background.
What do you dislike?
The admin features have not yet caught up with the end user experience. Most of the admin interface is a bit antiquated, and some of the functions that I would like to see have been sidetracked for a richer user experience.
Cornerstone Learning — Oct 6, 2020
Aug 19, 2020
Cornerstone LMS is very easy to use, to and helps meet our business needs
What do you like best?
The thing I like most about Cornerstone LMS is the wide variety of features. It makes it easy to deliver training and relevant information to all users across our organization.
What do you dislike?
The thing I like least is the support team. Although it's not always bad, it can be very hard to get a quick response from GPS.
Aug 19, 2020
This platform helped us leverage various training initiatives.
What do you like best?
The ease of the platform is simple and user friendly. We have been able to reach our employees at various locations/states through this platform.
What do you dislike?
Nothing at this time! Everything we have implemented has easy and functional for our organization.
Cornerstone Learning — Oct 13, 2020
Aug 18, 2020
Time-consuming to learn, difficult to use, lots of "gotchas" and minefields.
What do you like best?
- Flexibility, in that you can create and modify learning object titles to help group together different learning objects that should be grouped together in reports.
What do you dislike?
Extremely difficult to administer recurrent training. System is biased toward preventing duplicate assignments and numerous setting changes are required to push out recurrent training. Not suited for airports that have FAR Part 139 training requirements. Very difficult to learn. "HELP" section is no help, exceptionally complex and non-intuitive, next to useless for helping to put features in any context. - Felt like a blind man trying to learn about an elephant by touching and hugging it.
Cornerstone Learning — Sep 28, 2020
Feb 18, 2020
Dated, inconsistent, too complicated, head-shaking issues & design decisions, staff spread too thin
What do you like best?
The user interface is improving and from their perspective, it's mostly fine, but not always. It is generally stable. Latest release finally fixed some very basic HTML issues with course descriptions, but an issue that shouldn't have been there in the first place. Customer service has improved, but is still 50/50 on usefulness.
What do you dislike?
From the admin perspective, it is a daily slog trying to understand and figure out basic functions. Nearly every function is more difficult than it needs to be. Need to know HTML coding to do simple formatting. The training and Help functions are poor to average. Company charges $200 to take an automated certification exam which advertises their own product. I stump Support about half the time with simple questions. It's obviously dated with piecemeal fixes. Too much to list here.
May 30, 2019
Basic functionality is good but took a lot of step to complete my entries.
What do you like best?
User interface was clean and easy to understand where to get what I needed.
What do you dislike?
Too many steps to upload and create courses. Sometimes the complexity made it harder to complete what I needed.
May 18, 2019
It's time travel in the past. Be sceptical of consulting companies that recommend this LMS to you.
What do you like best?
There are some features that are standard, but there is nothing that I really like. Due to its complicated nature, it is not easy to replace administrators - so one could argue that it is good in securing jobs. Ask yourself whether you really need a jack of all trades that doesn't really do anything well. Just ask salespeople to show you how a quiz/test looks for a user and you will see that this system is far from being a modern LMS.
What do you dislike?
It looks quite dated. The UI is inconsistent and shows so much stuff that I don't need. I could write a book about how they could improve usability (e.g., "test engine" -> "create test"). They implement new features that initially look good, but are neither well integrated nor do they have a good UX. We didn't even try to implement the learners home after we heard from two other very well known international companies that they didn't implement it after thorough testing.
May 9, 2019
Cornerstone On-Demand is a pioneer in the eLearning field
What do you like best?
Update - Their system is built on solid ground but lacks advanced functionalities. Their interface may look like a blast from the past.
What do you dislike?
CSOD's support takes time to get back to you although when they do, your issue is instantly resolved.
Dec 10, 2018
It's a great Learning Management System, a worthwhile investment
What do you like best?
UI is decent and the same applies for UX . They have released several features updates over the past 2 years which have largely improved the system's functionality.
What do you dislike?
Takes much time to get a grasp of it and means you need to put all your work behind and focus on the admin side of things. Not their issue, but pretty sure the onboarding process could be smoother.
Jan 8, 2018
Cornerstone is a full-featured LMS, but it sometimes seems unnecessarily complex to administer.
What do you like best?
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What do you dislike?
Quarterly releases are great in theory, but when the admin role is just part of a person's position, they can seem overwhelming. However, the releases do keep the system moving forward.